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The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and…
The child's portion, or, The unseen glory of the children of God asserted and proved together with several other sermons / occasionally preached and now published by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston, New-England.
printed by Samuel Green, 1684
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The words before us are an assertion concerning the future happiness of God's Adopted Children, in which we may take notice of three things that are worthy of our diligent observation, viz. 1. The certainty and evidence of it, We know. 2. The time when it shall be; When he shall appear. 3. The nature of it, or that wherein it shall mainly consist: We shall be like him. We may take up these in their order.
1. For the certainty and evidence of it. We know. The word [[Greek or Hebrew]] signifies to know certainly; and the Apostle useth the word in opposition to an uncertain guess or conjecture, ⟨p. 74⟩by which a man doth but only probably suppose that the thing may be so.
1. For the certaincy and evidence of it. We know. The word [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] signifies to know certainly; and the Apostle useth the word in opposition to an uncertain ghuess or conjecture, ⟨p. 74⟩by which a man doth but only probably suppose that the thing may be so.
Here observe,